2003 Print Server Migration issue - a good one.

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Last weekend I migrated one of my W2K print servers to a seperate 2003 box
using the Clone.vbs resource kit utility. All went well and I renamed the
servers so the 2003 box now has the name of the old 2K box (renamed the 2K
box to something else & shut it down).

After the printer pruner did it's job I noticed about a dozen printers
missing from the directory (out of about 170). The que's still exist and
work fine but I cannot get them to add to the directory. I have tried
deleting and recreating them, unsharing/resharing, etc. with no luck. Any
clue's?
 
Tried another reboot when I had the chance. A few print que's came back and
another one or two disappeared from the directory. Hopefully, this is
something simple and new with 2003 that I am just missing. Enjoy the
challenge but am considering a call to MS before long.
 
Think I figured out a way to get them in. There is a 2003 Resource Kit
utility by the name of SetPrinter.exe. I was able to add them to the
directory with this command line utility. Now to see if it holds.
 
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